1963 Gator Bowl
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| Date | December 28, 1963 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 1963 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Gator Bowl Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Jacksonville, Florida | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | RB Ken Willard (North Carolina) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 50,018 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Network | CBS | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers |
Lindsey Nelson Terry Brennan Jim Simpson |
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The 1963 Gator Bowl was a college football postseason bowl game that featured the Air Force Falcons and the North Carolina Tar Heels.
This was the Falcons' first bowl game since 1959. The Tar Heels were co-champions of the Atlantic Coast Conference, which was their first conference title since the 1949 Southern Conference title. This was their first bowl game 1950.
Willard ran for 94 yards on 18 carries.
Air Force did not return to a bowl game until 1971, nor win one until 1982. North Carolina did not return to a bowl game until 1970.
The night after the game, a fire broke out in downtown Jacksonville, with 22 dying.
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